[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 11:45:15 PM UTC+13, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
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[intricacies of semantics of SET DEFAULT]
> So, there we have it. Isn't this brilliant? :) I run into this "gotcha" 
> every now and then when I don't remember to place a trailing colon on a 
> logical name, too. As far as I know, this behaviour isn't documented. 
> Apparently the VMS developers never make this "error", so never see the 
> problem. :)

Could be worse. Imagine, for the sake of argument, that somebody designed an OS where you could only use a single letter to name each disk device.

Crazy, I know. Nobody in their right mind would propose such a thing, would they? I mean, would you entrust mission-critical business functions to an OS that could only handle 26 drive letters?